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To: William McKinley
"Because Wilsonianism is a major part of Internationalist Conservatism or neoconservatism so he is a bit of hero in some part of the Right."

Clearly I distinguished between Wilsonianism and Wilson the man. 'Bit of a hero' hardly puts Wilson in the ranks of such neoconservative favorites as Truman and Scoop Jackson but apparently you needed clarification.

Max Boot runs with what are often called neoconservatives, but they claim only anti-Semites believe in neoconservatives, so he calls himself a conservative.

I quoted a paragraph from his essay to show that one neoconservative intellectual was attempting to make the connection. In 'my eyes,' Max Boot, neoconservative, thinks Wilsonianism is legit rather than a world view equal to Bolshevik Marxism.

Your last paragraph basically concedes that you are a Truman/FDR Republican. If being called a 'conservative' is important to you that is great, but the onus is on you to prove that liberal points of view that you hold fit into the larger scope of the conservative intellectual movement.

Otherwise, it just sounds like French Revolution liberalism with some patriotic and militaristic rhetoric.
41 posted on 08/11/2003 8:57:35 AM PDT by JohnGalt (They're All Lying)
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To: JohnGalt
Holy semantics Batman!

As for if I am a 'FDR/Truman' Republican, I point out that

1) I consider the New Deal to have been mostly a destructive force,

2) I find when reading of the policies and positions of the politicians of the day, the one I agreed with the most was Robert A. Taft (although I disagree with his views in two significant areas), who was about as far from FDR and Truman as you could get,

3) I believe that judicial restraint is one of the most important things in the governance of our country, and that said restraint was injured under FDR than at many other times in our country.

You see, you can try to paint me any way you like, but you will fail because I am a conservative, to the core.

42 posted on 08/11/2003 9:07:19 AM PDT by William McKinley (Vote Clinton Off: http://williammckinley.blogspot.com)
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